Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-85745-074-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Social Identities

Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors’ cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humor far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fueling hostilities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sciama, Lidia Dina

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Lidia Dina Sciama

Chapter 1. The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction

Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton

Chapter 2. Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork

Judith Okely

Chapter 3. Humour as a Form of Cognition

Elisabeth Hsu

Chapter 4. Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity

Ian Rakoff

Chapter 5. Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears: Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch

Fiona Moore

Chapter 6. Laughing at the Future: Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films

Dolores Martinez

Chapter 7. The English Pantomime: Toying with History, Playing with Gender, Laughing at Today

Shirley Ardener

Chapter 8. The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song

Glauco Sanga

Chapter 9. Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders: Carlo Goldoni’s Scuffles in Chioggia

Lidia Dina Sciama

Über Autor(innen)

Sciama, Lidia Dina
Lidia Dina Sciama is former Director of the International Gender Studies Centre (formerly the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women), University of Oxford, where she is currently a Research Associate. She is the author of A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn 2003).